Padraig Harrington Questions How ‘Serious’ Tiger Woods is About the Open Without Playing a Warm-Up Event
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-07-04
By JAMES CORRIGAN, The Telegraph
Padraig Harrington has questioned if Tiger Woods and all the other Open Championship entrants who are skipping straight from major to major are “serious” about winning at Royal Portrush in two weeks’ time.
Woods did not play between his victory at the Masters in April and missing the cut at the USPGA and has chosen to do same between last month's US Open and the UK major.
"I personally think if you're serious about winning the Open you've got to be playing tournament golf at least before it," Harrington said. "You'd rather be playing links golf and being in a tournament than just [playing] on your own, so if you're serious about trying to win the Open you should be playing at least one, if not two, of the events running into it."